The earliest voice listened to by the nations in their infancy was the voice of the storyteller.
AGNES REPPLIEROur belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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The sanguine assurance that men and nations can be legislated into goodness, that pressure from without is equivalent to a moral change within, needs a strong backing of inexperience.
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It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
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Guests are the delight of leisure, and the solace of ennui.
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
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if a man be discreet enough to take to hard drinking in his youth, before his general emptiness is ascertained, his friends invariably credit him with a host of shining qualities which, we are given to understand, lie balked and frustrated by his one unfortunate weakness.
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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
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The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.
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History is not written in the interests of morality.
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Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.
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An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting.
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Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.
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The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.
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